There are two Baghdads and both are important although one is insubstantial. The Baghdad in the bombsights (concrete highways, parking lots, sprawling suburbs, smog) is a drab big city, hotter than ...

Father Habib Hermiz of the Saint George Chaldean Church in Baghdad says Christians are becoming targets of extortion as the country’s security situation continues to unravel. In July, a band of ...

BAGHDAD, March 18 -- A cool, gentle breeze blew off the Tigris River, drifting over the white-washed walls of the Hawar Art Gallery. With his friends, Maher Samarai paused to appreciate the moment, ...

OUTSIDE BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops closed to within 20 miles of Baghdad on Wednesday, punching through the remnants of Republican Guard divisions and rolling nearly within sight of Saddam Hussein's ...

Bombing Continues in Baghdad Audio will be available later today. NPR's Anne Garrels reports on daylight bombing in Baghdad. Electricity, water and phone lines are still running in the city despite ...

Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003: Marines of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines cut the Iraqi flag from a pole in front of a Special Republican Guard headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. The crossing into ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Army and Marine forces thundered deeper into Baghdad from every direction Tuesday, engaging in fierce bursts of urban combat, raining bombs on pockets of resistance and locking ...

Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 19, 2003: At Baghdad International Airport, soldiers from the 1st Armored Division pull maintenance on part of the Firefinder radar system, which can pinpoint from where enemy ...